By Antoine Culioli
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It also does not require a c-commanding antecedent, although it may have one (cf. Chomsky, 1981).
1) The postman opened the door. (2) Le facteur ouvrit la porte. (3) Le facteur a ouvert la porte (James:171). Construction of CA grammars on the basis of traditional transformational grammar models does not solve the problem of formulating "comparability" (see DiPietro, 1971). The focus of current linguistic theory has shifted from the successive applications of rules in the course of a particular derivation to abstract universal principles and parameters that constrain rules (Chomsky, 1980, 1981, 1986a).
There are alternative explanations which I will explore in more detail in this book. 3. Theoretical Problems How can these repeated failures of CA be explained? I argue that the theoretical underpinnings of the theory itself dictate its failure. First, CA as described earlier is elaborated within a psychological theory of behaviorism. As is well known, behaviorist theories of production and acquisition of complex cognitive competences, specifically wi th regard to language, have been severely challenged in 18 CHAPTER 2 the recent decades.